Precise Tenderness

Precise Tenderness

100 Haiku

By Kalamu ya Salaam

$19.95

Publication Date: 28th October 2023

With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted us another amazing collection of poetry. This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. "Falling is minor," writes the poet in Haiku #13. What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read. Whether issuing political commentary, musing about love and self-inspection, or making his characteristic and in... Read More
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With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted us another amazing collection of poetry. This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. "Falling is minor," writes the poet in Haiku #13. What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read. Whether issuing political commentary, musing about love and self-inspection, or making his characteristic and in... Read More
Description
With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted us another amazing collection of poetry. This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. "Falling is minor," writes the poet in Haiku #13. What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read. Whether issuing political commentary, musing about love and self-inspection, or making his characteristic and inevitable visit to erotica, Kalamu ya Salaam is an immensely profound and inspiring craftsperson. This collection is not only precise tenderness. It is precise brilliance.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Third World Press
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780883784266
Author Bio
Kalamu ya Salaam is a performance poet, a dramatist, a fiction writer, and a music critic. He is the founder of Nommo Literary Society and the founder and former editor of ""Black Collegian""""Magazine."" He is the author of ""From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets ""and ""What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self."" He lives in New Orleans.
With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted us another amazing collection of poetry. This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. "Falling is minor," writes the poet in Haiku #13. What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read. Whether issuing political commentary, musing about love and self-inspection, or making his characteristic and inevitable visit to erotica, Kalamu ya Salaam is an immensely profound and inspiring craftsperson. This collection is not only precise tenderness. It is precise brilliance.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Third World Press
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780883784266
Kalamu ya Salaam is a performance poet, a dramatist, a fiction writer, and a music critic. He is the founder of Nommo Literary Society and the founder and former editor of ""Black Collegian""""Magazine."" He is the author of ""From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets ""and ""What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self."" He lives in New Orleans.